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Sighthounds are freakin' weirdos! We usually have a judging competition, too. How straight are the arms? Is the tail up, curled? Is one arm perfectly straight and the other slightly tucked? Head to the side or straight, etc. Sometimes this whippet will kneel on her front wrists(?) with just her feet folded in, like a midget whippet or something!

THANK YOU!!! For adopting a retired racing greyhound. I work in a job that deals with greyhound racing among other things, and the abuse & neglect that comes to my attention is horrific. Race horses receive better treatment, but these poor greyhounds are more fungible and cheap, so therefore mistreated.

Here is hoping she fulfills her lifelong dream of being a couch potato/ comfort hound. Post some pictures when you've fattened her up a bit!

Good to know, thanks. I've never adopted a Greyhound. I adopted an adult Treeing Walker Coonhound a couple of years ago, and she's become something of a butterball (I doubt she could ever get really fat like my Beagle).

However, she was nearly starved to death when I got her, so I wanted to feed her well. Maybe I should put her on a diet.

If you take her to a vet, they can quickly tell you how heavy she is and tell you if she is over/underweight. You can assess the situation from there. Mixed breeds are often hard for the layperson to tell just by looking up info, but a trained vet can usually tell with a certain degree of certainty.

Not that you need to do this, mind you. Just some advice in case you want to be precise about her weight and ensure a longer life for your furry friend.

Definitely. I got so used to having a cat who just ate whenever he was hungry. I worry about not feeding my dogs enough, so I'm probably overfeeding them. Hounds don't tend to ever say "No thanks, I'm full, no more bacon for me."

I grew up with my family fostering greyhounds (roughly 1200 over a 10 year period), and they're easily the best breed I've ever dealt with. Extremely laid back, very low maintenance, and they're truly appreciative of the most simple things you can imagine. My family adopted the dogs with major health problems that were doomed in the adoption market; tripeds, diabetic, blind/deaf, paralyzed, separation disorder, etc...and they're absolutely the most trusting, protective, caring pet I've ever had the pleasure of being around. And, believe it or not, they're extremely lazy when you allow them to be.

Do you by chance know how common it is for people allergic to other dogs to be allergic to greyhounds? I know "hypoallergenic" is BS and dander/shedding can vary even w/in litters. But, do you know how often people are allergic to them? I've had a poodle, a schnauzer and a mix of the two, w/ no problems.

Dog allergies are usually related to the dog's dander. The closer the dander is to human dander the less allergic. I know poodles and afghan hounds have very human dander. I would just do some searching online for other breeds.

The dogs enjoy racing. In the US they are generally treated well at the track. If it isn't legal, it will be done illegally, since there is a lot of money to be made. Had that dog not been rescued, it would have been put down.

Thousands of dogs are put down every year by shelters. I think you meant, had it not been adopted it would have been put down.

Which is definitely not a problem, since putting unwanted animals down is standard practice for shelters in the US. The so called "No kill" shelters just get around it by denying to take animals so they end up at a shelter that kills. Because it is impossible not to put unwanted animals down, there are too many of them.

I'm not sure I see what you're getting at. If I am not mistaken, you are saying that the number of greyhounds that race and are bred to race increases with the number adopted. This is not true. If there isn't a home for a racer when they retire, they are put down. The number racing and bred to race remains constant, regardless of adoption rates.

You could also be saying that Greyhounds are less worthy of adoption than other shelter dogs. If that is the implication, this conversation has ended.

This is not going anywhere. As far as I am concerned, by adopting any dog from any shelter, even if that specific dog wasn't up for imminent euthanasia, "rescued" that dog if it was going to be euthanized, or "rescued" another dog that could go into the kennel yours was taken from. Adoption saves lives. Saving a life is equivalent to rescuing. Period.

That clearly was not my point. GhostedAccount said that "nothing was saved here." I was just making the point that the more retired racers are adopted, the less they are put down. Assuming their life at the track is good before being adopted, and all are adopted, there is no moral objection to it on my part. If it is done illegally, the hounds won't be treated as well, and won't be getting adoptive homes afterward.

I'm not that convinced that 'life at the track' is all that great either.

They love to run and race, sure. But this isn't like horse racing where there's serious capital investment in raising every racing horse that, out of sheer economic necessity, results in the animals being treated quite well., especially when they can also make the real big money breeding it afterwards. These are dogs that breed out a dime a dozen. They require way less 'work' to raise so (as the commodity they are considered) there is less impetus to providing a long and healthy life of good treatment.

My friend rescued a grey hound named Lorenzo and that poor dog had the worst problems. When too many people were over at his house he'd have anxiety attacks. He had to wear a diaper around because he couldn't control his functions anymore, and when my friend would take him out to go to the bathroom he would actually have to squeeze his penis to make the dog pee.

Poor baby. They're often abused, ignored, overworked and put on steroids. She's been with us for a while now, she's great. When we brought her home she was so fuckin' buff! She's still pretty big but her muscles have shrank down and she's taking her retirement seriously. So seriously in fact, that rabbits will eat out of our garden in front of her and not a fuck is given!

It's not just the food; on the track, they actually get fed very well for performance reasons. However, many greys- no matter what they're fed- just have rotten mouths. We raw feed two of our greyhounds; one had his dental problems completely go away. The other- she still has calculus buildup, and we have to spray and brush her teeth; they're much improved. There are greys like her whose mouths are rotten pretty much no matter what you do- there is nothing you can feed them to fix that problem.

I'm not sure precisely where that problem stems from; it must be physiological. Many (not all) improve when fed a very low carbohydrate, zero-grain diet; that probably goes back to their origins as hunting dogs, born and bred for that sort of thing- they were probably fed meat and bone, and almost nothing else. But today, that doesn't seem to prevent dental problems in 100% of greys, so I'm not sure what's different about that subset of greyhounds in physiological terms.

The key word the parent poster said was SOFT foods. By eating soft foods, there is nothing to break down and remove build up of plaque. So then they end up with bad teeth and potential for gum disease.

I had two greyhounds, a 55lbs girl and a 90 lbs boy. The girl was afraid of nothing. She attacked a Mastiff because it sniffed my daughter. Slept wherever she wanted, chewed whatever she wanted, just a happy "dog".

The boyhound was afraid of his own shadow. He was terribly uncomfortable if I put him on the couch or the bed, he preferred his own kennel in the corner. We had to learn how to deal with him and guests, eventually we found a happy medium together.

Retired Greyhounds are the most amazing pets. As with any animal (humans included) there is a wide range of personalities.

Ours has become much more social after a few years. She still spends a majority of her time in her (doorless) crate, but hey, if she wants to be in there, I'm not going to stop her, she also spends a lot of time outside on the grass or on her bed on the patio. They are great pets!

Many of the Caliente dogs came back to Phoenix, but since Phoenix track shut down, I'm not sure where they get hauled to/from. Tucson is the only other track in the area, and Caliente and Phoenix are fairly high-end tracks while Tucson is an end-of-the-line track.

If you have her ear tats, I can work out her racing career and maybe her history. Her call name would also work.

I don't think Georgia has any tracks; you may mean JCKC, which is close to Georgia, or she may have been in training in Alabama (I think there's a training track there).

There will be two sets of green tattoos; the one in the RIGHT ear are birth month and year (last digit) and tattoo order. 119E means November (11th month) of 2009 (or 1999), and fifth (A, B, C, D, E) in order.

The LEFT ear is specific to the litter number, and is recycled no more than once every ten years. That's the NGA litter registration number.

You might check your paperwork; it could be on that. Otherwise, sometimes the tats get hard to read; in a few dogs, you may have to shave the ear hair a bit, or put on some mineral oil. The best trick is to shine a flashlight from behind the ear to bring out the green letters a bit.

Oh yes, you're right, Alabama is where she's from. Her tats are still legible, I was just showin' them off to a friend. At first we couldn't get anywhere near her ears without her screaming like a banshee, but these days she's super mellow about everything. Really pleasant dogs, I've never met one that the owner had anything bad to say about!

Coco worked his way up to being a Grade A racer in Caliente, when he was sold/transferred/moved to Phoenix; he continued his career until pulling a leg muscle, and sent into rehab. After doing so, he never came back up to good times in races, and was retired. We received him, fresh off the track, loaded with muscles and no idea what anything from carpet to ceiling fans were. He was our first greyhound. Eventually we got another, and we have fostered maybe a dozen since then.

One of those fosters came from the same kennel as Coco. Bill ran his own kennel out of Maricopa, south of Phoenix. I've only been there once, on an emergency run to pick up a dog that had been retired from racing, but didn't have a home. In order to maintain a full racing compliment, Bill would have had to put down a dog if any dogs got injured racing that night, and Jake was next in line. So, I drove out there, and picked him up.

I'd never been to Bill's kennels before. Even the gravel was groomed. I was amazed at how well the dogs were treated. Yeah, things have been really shitty for racing greyhounds in the past- and there's no denying that things are still tough for them in some areas- but the majority are treated very well.

Jake bounced from 3 homes before he finally ended up in an ideal home in the north country- something like 2 fenced acres on a 40-acre property, in the hands of an experienced greyhounder. I called the breeder, and she was very happy to hear about Jake; he still stood out in her memory. She was one of those breeders that kept their dogs in a home environment before being sent out to the track. She only bred a total of 14 litters in her career, noting that it was a brutal business. I didn't ask for elaboration.

I picked up Jake (a nickname one of our family friends gave to me when I was a kid) on my birthday; when I mentioned this to the adopter, she told me that he arrived on her birthday. To top things off, on the day when we dropped off Jake (who was a "cow-doggie," a fairly uncommon color pattern- black patches on white), we picked up another foster- another cow-doggie.

In retrospect, we probably should have kept Jake, but then we'd have been full up and no room for more fosters. Our current guy goes to a home on Friday; Lk's Buffalo (named Buffalo, although he still doesn't know his name) was retired off the Tucson track back in March. The first two weeks, he was perfect. We've never had a dog this good fresh off the track. He's picked up some bad habits, but he's still a fun dog. :)

I don't consider humane euthanasia of an animal to be abuse, even if it is wasteful and unnecessary. During their racing careers, greyhounds are working animals not pets. I'm not saying abuse doesn't happen (I know for a fact that it does), or that its not reprehensible, but I don't think that abuse is inherent to the dog racing industry.

Then you would be wrong. I've seen horrific abuse and neglect with my own eye on many occasions. I was involved with greyhound rescue for years and was responsible for picking up dogs from local kennels and the track in Tucson. The things I saw kept me up at night for a long time.

Us, too. We were even told the previous care-takers loved these dogs as if they were part of their families. Doesn't change the fact that large patches of her skin were calloused from lying on cement all day ... but at least she was loved there!

But I do sometimes have this urge to adopt a saluki from STOLA. They bring them in from the middle east where they're kept in cages in ~120-130F weather, no a/c.

While the NGA greyhound can run the shit out of anything in the half mile (shy of things like cheetahs and antelope), the saluki can run down anything in the 1-3 mile chase. The physiology is absolutely fascinating, and I've always wanted to adopt one.

Yeah, they're awesome! My wife's familiy has always had Afghan hounds. Amazing dogs. No cat survived a trot through that yard. One of them caught a bird out of the air once, too. Fast as hell and beautiful to watch with all the flowing hair.

You have to be really careful with them, though, the number 1 way they die in the US is being hit by cars. It's important to keep a Greyhound on a leash, but it's life-or-death for a Saluki, since they can run for so long.

Our gates are all locked; we take precautions every time we go in and out a door- including "Gate secure?" and "Gate secure" when we're done walking the dogs. We have a knee-high gate at the front door (and a security door) to further discourage escapes.

We once lost Tito (non-greyhound) out the front door; he bolted, and stalled when I called him. At the time, he was a rescue that had been on the euthanization list at the pound for "extreme fear." It took a good 5 months for him to get used to the other dogs, and it was 9 months before we integrated him into the pack, and gave him house privileges.

Remarkably, he came right back to me. But I always carry a greyhound squawker in my pocket for emergencies. They get trained with it, too.

GreySave dog definately came from Caliente. I have two girls I adopted through them. Mine are just perfect companions. Freaky and playful for about an hour total each day, asleep or resting the rest of the day. Tyra and Julia are mine.

More importantly it keeps the coyotes out! One trotted by the fence yesterday while we were eating lunch out there, we see one about once a month. It's hard for raccoons, skunks and opossums to get over as well.

Thanks! We just moved in. We looked and looked and finally after two years of deals falling apart, and sales just not working out, we happened upon this place. Every time I come home I don't feel worthy! Lucky for me I married a woman who makes more money!

Yep, two kids. We adopted our son three years ago from Ethiopia when he was six months, and two weeks ago we brought home a six-year-old daughter from Ethiopia. We're atheists with bleeding hearts! Here's me with the kiddos!

My dog sleeps like this too! I thought I was the only one... she's a mutt though, runt of the litter, black lab mix of some sort. The best is the way the teeth stick out because her mouth skin folds over, heh.

Never say never. First of all, my boy was homeless in Ethiopia, my daughter lost her parents to illness in Ethiopia, look where they are now! Second, at one point in my life my '62 bug was unregistered and not running. I was sleeping in my friends' garage because I was too tall for their couch. My parents were too poor to help me out so I put myself through college working multiple jobs and having great, supportive friends. Third, I married someone that makes a lot more money than me. That is the key. Marry for money and you, too, can have your dreams come true!

Seriously though, when I was in my early 20s, no way in hell I imagined I'd be where I am today. Where do you live? How old are you? What do you do?

Woah, you've come a long way. You honestly do sound like a fantastic person. I'm from Cork in Ireland, I'm 19 and I'm a housekeeper in a hotel! I'll be starting college in September.
What I really love is to have the money to travel and experience life instead of leading an extremely sheltered West Cork life!

Not trying to really rag on you i was just joking, but yes, you are rich people. You sentence is the very definition of rich upperclass white people, even the claiming to not be rich when living in a super expensive house the most expensive area in the country.

When the month is over, the money is gone. I might make more than someone in the midwest, but I'm also required to spend more! Compared to everyone in my 'hood (like my neighbor with a Ferrari), I'm poor, I own two 2002 Fords and carry almost $20K in CC debt (recent adoption was expensive). So yes, I may be in the top 1% of wealth in the country, but I wear old clothes and drive shitty cars. What do you consider a super expensive house?